Courtesy: Gateway House
The Tata group faces one of the biggest challenges in its history: the preservation or dismantling of the mandate of the Tata Trusts in favour of investors whose primary objective is financial returns. On the second anniversary of Ratan Tata’s death, it is worth remembering that those who carried the name of Tata in their Trusts, believed foremost in “giving India what it needs.”
Courtesy: Economic Times
Ratan Tata was a private, humble man with razor-sharp wit. His friend, Bobby Saigal, recalls their unique friendship, and the man who was a true son of India, who selflessly dedicated himself to the Tata legacy, philanthropy, and nation-building, and who was happiest when walking the shopfloor, talking and listening to his employees.
Courtesy: Dr. Jehangir Sorabjee
Prior to the Second World War, Bombay had established merchant networks with several Japanese port cities and they drove an enormous global trade in cotton and textiles between the Indian subcontinent and Imperial Japan. Business has become a renewed priority for both countries today, offering fresh opportunities for collaboration
Courtesy: PMO
The India-Russia relationship has seen much progress over the past year - 30 MoU's were signed, two Russian nuclear reactors were set up in India and visa regimes have been eased considerably. But will this be enough to lift the relationship from the benign neglect of the past?